WND EXCLUSIVE

'Schindler's List' producer rips Obama's 'Soviet' tactics

Decries 'political prosecution' of conservative filmmaker

Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff writer. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is "Partners in Crime."

The Obama administration’s prosecution of conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza on campaign-finance charges is a “political prosecution” comparable to the tactics used on the communist former Soviet Union to quell dissent, charges the producer of D’Souza’s 2012 hit film, which warned of dire consequences for the nation if Obama were elected to a second term.

“When Dinesh D’Souza can be prosecuted for making a movie, every American should ask themselves one question: ‘What will I do to preserve the First Amendment?’” Gerald R. Molen, the producer of “2016: Obama’s America,” told WND.

Molen previously produced the Academy Award-winning film “Schindler’s List.”

D’Souza has a new film scheduled for release July 4, “America,” which imagines what the world would be like without the nation.

He faces a maximum of two years in prison for the illegal contributions charge and a maximum of five years in prison for a false statements charge. D’Souza’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, released a statement saying, “Mr. D’Souza did not act with any corrupt or criminal intent whatsoever. He and the candidate have been friends since their college days, and at worst, this was an act of misguided friendship by D’Souza.”

Molen said the Obama administration “is engaging in a practice of ‘selective enforcement of the law’ where there is double standard such that if you oppose Obama politically, the IRS and the Department of Justice knock on your door, but if you’re a liberal who supports Obama, you can say anything you want.”

In the eyes of the Obama administration, Molen contends, D’Souza’s crime was to dare to produce a movie that could damage President Obama at the polls.

“This is not the America we grew up in,” Molen said. “In the America I treasured, a president would go out of his way to protect those who disagreed with the president’s policy. That’s what the First Amendment is all about.”

Molen said D’Souza is encouraging Americans who still treasure the First Amendment and want to preserve the right to express political dissent without being prosecuted to “vote with your feet” by making the debut of D’Sousa’s next film, “America,” a success at the box office.

Is Obama retaliating against his few media critics?

No, it's a paranoid, right-wing fantasy

No, Dinsesh D'Souza may actually be guilty

No, Obama's critics deserve all the punishment they get

No, Republicans are desperate because they hate Obama

No, this is more right-wing racism

Yes, remember when Obama said: 'I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way'?

Yes, he is targeting them. He views them as a stumbling block to the U.S. he wants to create

Yes, punishing his enemies' is one of the few promises Obama has actually kept